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Learn or upgrade sailing skills with a holiday in Greece

Learn or upgrade sailing skills with a holiday in Greece either live-aboard or stay in an apartment and sail daily...

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Sarasota Yacht Club cancels Sarasota to Havana Event for 2011

Sarasota Yacht Club having set 25 February as the deadline for getting permission, has cancelled a regatta to Havana...

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Two world yacht rallies choose Mackay as stopover

The World Cruising Club has chosen Mackay over Cairns next year for its Australian port visit in the World ARC...

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Barcelona World Race - The Wellington question

Barcelona World Race - To stop or not to stop? That is definitely the question for the twenty sailors in the BWR....

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World's top sailors to compete in Holland, MI for Canada's Cup 2011

Macatawa Bay Yacht Club will defend the Cup in 115-year-old match race contest...

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World's Top Sailors Compete for Canada's Cup 2011 in Holland, MI

The Macatawa Bay Yacht Club announced it will host the prestigious Canada's Cup match race September 1-4, 2011....

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Velux 5 Oceans - CSM suffers Southern Ocean setback

Velux 5 Oceans - Chris has been forced to carry out vital repairs to his yacht in the middle of the Southern Ocean....

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America's Cup: Team Australia has a run on the AC45

On a grey and blustery day, the newly established Australian challenge for the 34th America's Cup put the AC45 catamaran...

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Extinction predictor 'will help protect coral reefs'

More than a third of coral reef fish species are in jeopardy of local extinction from the impacts of climate change on c...

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Sail-World Mailbag: Readers comments from the last week or so

Sail-World readers comment on America's Cup and other pressing matters...

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Canadian Albacore Association: Recapping 2010, Looking Forward to 2011

2010 was another great season in the Albacore fleet....

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Barcelona World Race - Key repairs in New Zealand

Virbac-Paprec 3, long-term leaders in the Barcelona World Race, are currently in dock in Wellington to make key repairs...

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Rolex Farr 40 World Championship - Sydney waits in baited breath

In a week's time the 14th Rolex Farr World Championship gets underway in Sydney, Australia....

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Rude awakening for Derek Hatfield in Sprint 3

Canadian Velux 5 Oceans solo sailor wakes to find Active House out of control doing 21 knots!...

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America's Cup: Eighth entry received - now seven challengers

America's Cup event organizers have confirmed the receipt of an eighth entry for the 34th America's Cup in 2013....

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NSW Maritime news: Review of Operation Blue Water

NSW Maritime - Failure to comply with essential boating safety equipment requirements was the most common infringement....

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Yachting industry suffers - Liverpool Boat Show cancelled

After the dismal figures of the London Boat Show MIE have decided to call off the Liverpool Boat Show....

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London 2012 Olympic Games sailing schedule announced

London 2012 Olympic Games - The LOCOG today announced the complete sports competition schedule....

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Russia opens its ports to cruising sailors

Russia is now opening its port and canals to visiting yachts and superyachts....

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Major New Media launch at Sanctuary Cove

MarineBusiness-World.com has secured naming rights for Pavilion A at Australia's Sanctuary Cove International Boat Show....

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Barcelona World Race - 541 mile lead

Barcelona World Race - A dramatic stage is fast approaching for BWR leaders as they prepare to cross the Cook Strait....

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Velux 5 Oceans - Brad Van Liew looks ahead to The Horn

Velux 5 Oceans -Sprint three leader Van Liew reveals that he has started to plan his rounding of the infamous Cape Horn....

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Go, Kingston, Go!

If the sailing gods look fondly, Kingston efforts to land the ISAF Worlds in 2014 will be a real win for North America....

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America's Cup: AC45 rigging process - Onshore

Rigging and launching has been one of the serious question marks hanging a wingsailed multihull for the America's Cup...

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Barcelona World Race-Caffari and Corbella enjoy top speeds down under

The all female duo's hearts were certainly racing yesterday but it had little to do with the romance of Valentine's Day...

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America's Cup: AC45 Pre-flight check and Launch

Getting a wingsailed AC45 loaded up and off the marina is not a simple task....

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Burke Marine's new L100 PFD

Burke Marine's trusty L1 has been superseded by their all-new front entry L100 PFD....

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Sailing Lake Eyre stopped by National Parks

There's a risk that the Lake Eyre Yacht Club won't be able to sail this year on the Lake, in spite of plenty of water....

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New York Yacht Club Invitational Cup - 13 nations represented

NYYC Invitational Cup will host 19 yacht club teams representing 13 nations from six different continents...

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Product of the week: Soft snatch block

Colligo Marine's patent-pending soft snatch block is strong, light in weight and can be implemented without a line end....

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Velux 5 Oceans - CSM on a high as fleet charges through Southern Ocean

Velux 5 Oceans - British ocean racer Chris Stanmore-Major has warned his rivals to 'watch this space'...

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America's Cup: Young Harken Matchracers check out the AC45

Forty young sailors competing in the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron's Harken Youth International Match Racing Champion...

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Destination New Zealand guide for visiting yachts

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Cruising sailor wanted in murder case 'could be anywhere'

Spanish Sailor Javier Martin wanted by FBI in Panama as 'person of interest' in sailor's murder, 'could be anywhere'...

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Barcelona World Race - Half way there? Or half way home? Or not?

Barcelona World Race - It's a theoretical distance, but 25,000 miles is the published course distance....

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Barcelona World Race - Huges waves for top three

Barcelona World Race - Mapfre and Estrella Damm endured their most challenging sea conditions this morning....

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St. Maarten Heineken Regatta - Fleet growing, changes in the works

St. Maartin Heineken Regatta - With less than three weeks to go before racing commences, the fleet continues to grow....

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Ten quick tips to make boat cleaning less of a chore.

If you put off cleaning your boat, you are inviting expensive trouble. Here are ten quick common sense cleaning tips...

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Barcelona World Race - Groupe Bel on the charge

Barcelona World Race - So far it looks like more straightforward, plain sailing over coming days for BWR racers....

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Velux 5 Oceans - Oil leak on Active House

Velux 5 Oceans competitor, Canadian ocean racer Derek Hatfield, said today he is relishing the tight racing...

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RORC Caribbean 600 - Just ten days to go

The RORC Caribbean 600, now in its third year, has attracted competitors from all over the world...

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Barcelona World Race - Hugo Boss slips past GAES

Barcelona World Race - Two duos will be feeling a special satisfaction this morning after gaining places on the board....

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Is your yacht safe? Marine surveyor sounds Carbon Monoxide alarm

Marine surveyor Paul Slivka draws attention to the danger of death by asphyxiation on board both sailing and power boat...

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Voyaging with Velella: Dragging anchor in crowded La Cruz

Meghan Cleary, partner Prescott and kitten Nessie are on a 9-month cruise in the tropics, currently sailing in Mexico....

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America's Cup: Two Asian teams checking out possible entry

Two prospective teams from Asia were in Auckland for the launch of the AC45 on Tuesday....

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Velux 5 Oceans-Gutek reclaims second as battle with Hatfield heightens

Velux 5 Oceans - Gutek and Operon Racing have reclaimed second place after it was snatched by rival Derek Hatfield....

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J/24 Canadian Championships to be held at Port Credit Yacht Club

J/24 Canadian Championships to be held at Port Credit Yacht Club in Mississauga, Ontario July 7-10, 2011...

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Barcelona World Race - Central Lechera Asturiana: catch up starts here

Virbac-Paprec 3 have around 900 miles of the Indian Ocean left and are around 1900 miles to the entrance to Cook Straits...

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Barcelona World Race - Considering the Cook Straits

Barcelona World Race - The leading group may be ready to reflect on their passage across a lenient south Indian Ocean....

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America's Cup: Peyron brothers behind the latest Challenger

Energy Team, the new French challenge set up around Bruno and Loick Peyron, has been officially registered for the 34th...

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Barcelona World Race - Reducing speed and lead

Virbac-Paprec 3 have just passed the easternmost end of the second Australian safety barrier...

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Banque Populaire V heading home

We gybed onto the long starboard up to the Doldrums at midnight and are now heading north at good speed...

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Marine Rescue NSW signs up 3,000th volunteer

Marine Rescue NSW Commissioner Glenn Finniss announced the recruitment of the organisation's 3,000th member....

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Yacht with steering SOS aids Rowers with food SOS in the Atlantic

Disabled yacht White Whisper has been able to share food with rowers on water-drenched Papa Delta in the Atlantic...

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America's Cup: A Day of Celebration for the AC45

With its technical shakedown now complete, it was handover day for the new AC45 wing-sailed catamaran, marking the begin...

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ECDIS - cool gizmo for the electronics savvy sailor to pine for

The ECDIS is one cool gizmo, and all you need, apart from perhaps a little more space on the yacht, is money....

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Barcelona World Race - What's cooking for the Straits?

Barcelona World Race - Virbrac Paprec 3 crossed the longitude of Cape Leeuwin this morning...

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Barcelona World Race - Hugo Boss Main Sail repair

Barcelona World Race - For those of you who have been following Hugo Boss you know the boat had a main sail problem...

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Melges 24 World Championship 2013 San Francisco - Dates announced

Melges 24 Worlds - The 2013 Melges 24 World Championship will be hosted by the San Francisco Yacht Club....

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Extreme Sailing Series - Full team line-ups unveiled

The full crew line-ups are unveiled today ahead of the first Extreme Sailing Series" Act to be hosted in Muscat...

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